Motivational Quotes

Love

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

1.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

2.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

3.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

4.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

6.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

7.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

8.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

9.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

11.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

17.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

19.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

21.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

22.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

23.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

27.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

29.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

31.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

32.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

33.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

34.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

36.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

37.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

38.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

40.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

41.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

42.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

45.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

48.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

50.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og